Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:39:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:39:17 -0400 Received: from khan.acc.umu.se ([130.239.18.139]:7617 "EHLO khan.acc.umu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:39:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:42:44 +0200 From: David Weinehall To: Greg Ungerer Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Amol Lad Subject: Re: uclinux on MMU platforms - query Message-ID: <20020808114244.GX259@khan.acc.umu.se> References: <3D50B42B.8000200@snapgear.com> <1028719830.18156.238.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3D51BC64.4030704@snapgear.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D51BC64.4030704@snapgear.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1112 Lines: 31 On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:33:40AM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Alan Cox wrote: > >On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 06:46, Greg Ungerer wrote: > > > >>> Can I run uClinux on platforms that has MMU > >> > >>You could, but why would you want to? > > > > > >Being able to run true ucLinux on i386 makes debugging and verification > >of software so much less painful sometimes. > > For some things yes. But it is a real pain trying to track > down memory corruption and stack overflow problems in > applications. They have a tendency to take your the whole system... Wouldn't an ucLinux-version of uml be a good idea? :-) Regards: David Weinehall -- /> David Weinehall /> Northern lights wander <\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/